The Days are Few

I'm looking ahead to starting school next week. Teachers go back Thursday in our district. That means I have a single week, a mere seven days, of sleeping in, of freedom, left. In the week to come, I have made plans for Monday, I have a doctor appointment on Tuesday, and more plans on Wednesday. Then Thursday, back to real life. For the rest of this week, my main goal is to get as much fun out of it as possible with my kids. Most of what's in the plan for next week is fun stuff that they will enjoy (aside from the doctor appointment).

I have done some preliminary work that I hope will make the school year run more smoothly. I have started digging through my single-copy music file, and pulling pieces I'd like to use with my choirs. I have three envelopes set aside for each of the choirs I direct. I got from A to I in my file before I ran out of gas on that project on Monday. I have the rest of the day today and tomorrow to get that done. It seems like a monumental task. I doubt I'll finish. (Realism is overtaking the optimism.)

Right now I'm waiting for my firstborn daughter to finish taking a shower. Then we have some grocery shopping to do. I think my days of going grocery shopping without my kids is pretty much over. I had worked things out last school year that my kids stayed at the YMCA after school program at their school, so I'd go shopping before picking them up. This year we're not doing the Y, and I'll be picking them up after school each day, and dragging them to the store with me. The good news though is that they aren't babies, and soon I'll be able to send them on errands for me within the store. "You go get this and you get that, and meet me back here in 3 minutes." We're not there yet, but we will be soon.

Hubby and I have been watching "Arrested Development" on Netflix streaming. This started a discussion about various cast members, including Portia de Rossi who married in the mid-1990's to obtain legal working status in the US. That thought led me to thinking about Green Card, a movie starring Gérard Depardieu, whose name is mentioned in the Weird Al song, "Genius in France," (at about the 6:00 mark). That's how my brain rattled around from "Arrested Development" to "Genius in France," which was the song in my head last night.